According to the police chief, security agencies have observed a growing number of vehicles plying roads across the country without proper registration or with number plates deliberately obscured to avoid detection.
The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has ordered an immediate nationwide crackdown on vehicles operating without registration number plates or with concealed, defaced or altered plate numbers, warning that such vehicles will be impounded as part of efforts to tackle insecurity across Nigeria.
Disu announced the directive in a broadcast seen by SaharaReporters on Tuesday afternoon, saying the Nigeria Police Force would no longer tolerate what he described as acts of impunity by motorists who deliberately evade identification.
According to the police chief, security agencies have observed a growing number of vehicles plying roads across the country without proper registration or with number plates deliberately obscured to avoid detection.
"Across several parts of our country, we have observed an increasing number of vehicles being driven without registration number, as well as vehicles whose number plates are deliberately concealed, defaced, covered, or altered in an attempt to evade identification," he said.
